Fanboy: Screen Print Installation - Convergence of diasporic identity, fandom, being an alt-boy
Boy Bawang is a Filipinx snack mascot in the shape of an angry head of garlic. He is a fan of you, you are his fan. A globally distributed franchise that has never been from anywhere. An explosion of bootleg merchandise imagines its screaming fans - inventing a profuse, zealous, and homesick fanbase, it’s BOY BAWANG.
What started out as a zine to explore how Filipino I am has become a point of departure to explore Boy Bawang as a punk-art, noise-rock, alt-fillipinx aesthetic. Boy is a mascot after all, a support character for finding specificity in the ways we build our personal perspectives. The project is about connecting to diasporic homelands through globalized marketing on snack products but you can’t help but express frustration at the same globalized economy that is straight-up evil most of the time.
Promotional Video, Video Collage, and Exhibition Photos by Rea Saxena reasaxena.com , @nice.loop
Fanboy Video Collage
Videocollage filmed on High-Band Video8
Collaboration with Rea Saxton
With the shared language of negatives, exposure, and collage, I collaborated with Vancouver-based videographer Rea Saxton to create a 20 minute looping video work. We used elements of the screen printing process in this noise pop inspired video collage to further specify the personality and aesthetic of our Boy Bawang. The film includes abstracted shots from the screenprinting process from exposure to print. It includes animations created with negatives used in the printing process as well as ink splatters from the spray booth, the flash of exposure units, the grids of a dry rack and other specific visual experiences in the printmaking studio.
